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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Officials at Salt Lake City International Airport say a firearm being declared for shipment accidentally went off, sending bullet fragments into a skycap's foot. Superintendent of Airport Operations Dave Korzep says the skycap worker was treated at the scene Thursday and not taken to the hospital.

Korzep says a passenger was checking in a semiautomatic pistol when he either dropped it or mishandled it, causing it to fire.

Korzep says airport operations were not impacted. Airport police were interviewing the gun's owner, who Korzep says thought the weapon was unloaded.

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I carry my Glock 21 'hot' at all times.......except......going to a crowd mingling place, dinner, ralley, school or sort. I then clear the chamber. Thinking a legalrequest to disarm could be done a lot safer should I wish to comply.

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TheMrMitch wrote:

I carry my Glock 21 'hot' at all times.......except......going to a crowd mingling place, dinner, ralley, school or sort. I then clear the chamber. Thinking a legalÂ*request to disarm could be done a lot safer should I wish to comply.

Any other time, she's hot.

Ya know, you're not really doing yourself any favors there.

You should always carry your sidearm in the same condition, at all times. When faced with an immediate threat, you won't waste anytime trying to figure out which carry condition you are in, or even worse - point and "click" with no "bang" when you really needed it to go "bang".

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Master Doug Huffman wrote:

May I guess, a Glock?

Glock has nothing to do with it; he wouldn't have been disassembling it for cleaning, just demonstrating it unloaded by locking the slide back. He had to have pulled the trigger while doing that... and while pointing the gun at another person!!! I'm sure this nitwit could have managed this negligent discharge with any brand of pistol.

Mistake 1: Not completely unloading the gun before placing it into checked luggage.

Mistake 2: Neglecting to treat the "unloaded" gun as it were loaded by pointing it at another person.

It took two mistakes to result inthe skycap'sinjury; gives all gun owners a bad name.

"Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your Liberties by any pretense of Politeness, Delicacy, or Decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for Hypocrisy, Chicanery, and Cowardice." - John Adams

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Master Doug Huffman wrote:

May I guess, a Glock?

I realize you're not implying that the firearm is the issue, but the type of person who buys it...

Wasn't there a cop who shot himself down his pants with a Glock recently? It's not the Glock's fault. But I've noted a distinct culture preference for Glocks. Certain groups of very stupid people tend to think that "Glock iz da bizomb, yo." An innovative firearm in a few ways, but it's followers...

"Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your Liberties by any pretense of Politeness, Delicacy, or Decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for Hypocrisy, Chicanery, and Cowardice." - John Adams